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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 29 2008
For the DIYers among us, knowing where to find eco-friendly fabrics for crafting and sewing projects is essential. The more we can support green and sustainable fabrics, the faster we can help transform the textile industry's impact on the environment. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 8 2008
Might green tea, with all its celebrated health benefits, also keep your skin looking younger when applied topically? Some researchers think it could, in a variety of ways. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 29 2008
Did you know that a DIY rinse of lemon juice and salt solution can work wonders for whitening your teeth at home? With this simple, homemade tooth whitener recipe, you can avoid the potential problems from chemical exposure to commercial whitening kits, strips, gels, and systems. Studies show that the surface-bleaching agents in commercial whiteners may be detrimental to nanomechanical properties of teeth. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 29 2008
You can use lemon as an effective toner to help reduce oil and prevent shine on your face. Lemon juice has astringent and antiseptic properties that clear up excess perspiration and eliminate unwanted shine caused by high humidity. What a simple solution, especially when of the most recent and suddenly indispensable products we're seeing in ads and on the shelves are the shine-stoppers, promising to provide all-day protection and a soft, matte glow just like the ones in the airbrushed magazine photos. But do we really need all those prepackaged cosmetics? + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Home & Garden Aug 28 2008
Mulching your organic garden is probably easier than you may think, and can be accomplished for practically free. Mulching helps make your home gardening efforts less work and more productive, so you can put your energy and creativity into growing more of what you love, whether that?s peonies or chili peppers. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Home & Garden Aug 26 2008
Okay, so the party's over, and you're left with a mess. One of the realities of using vintage linens at your stylish, eco-friendly bash is the clean-up. After all, the whole idea is to re-use the linens, not to toss them out due to stubborn stains. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 21 2008
The news is simple and good: Vitamin D is thought to protect you from cancer, possibly with tremendous efficacy, cutting cancer risk in some groups by as much as 60 percent. According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, improving calcium and vitamin D nutritional status substantially reduces all-cancer risk in postmenopausal women. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 21 2008
If the past few years have brought us a single Bam! Vegetable, it's got to be squash. This humble root has been turning up in every form imaginable across menus of all ethnic origins, from Italian ravioli to Caribbean soup to Thai dumplings and even cake! + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Home & Garden Aug 19 2008
When you hear pico de gallo, you probably think of a dish of fresh chopped tomatoes, onions, and chili peppers to pile onto your tostada or serve up with crispy tortilla chips or other favorite Mexican food. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 18 2008
The memories of a ripe summer tomato, still warm from the garden, sliced fresh on a plate with a dash of salt...heaven. And such a far cry from the pale-inside and disappointingly flavorless impostors that too often fill these days in for the idea of a real tomato. Whether au naturale on a plate or chopped up in a salsa, no tomato recipe can please if the tomato itself is a dud. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 18 2008
The thing about American shopping rituals is that they get bigger and bigger and BIGGER with each passing year. Christmas is an obvious carbon culprit, but back-to-school shopping is a startling example, as well. A modest tradition that once amounted, for most families, to a new pair of shoes and maybe one outfit for the first day of school, has ballooned into what many retailers consider the second largest holiday shopping season next to Christmas. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 18 2008
People have always relied on animal skins for warmth, housing, and functional objects. But in these modern times when most of us no longer hunt our own food or tan those deer hides ourselves, many people seek alternatives to fur and leather for various ethical or ecological reasons. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 18 2008
Going green, or at least greener, is as much about being conscious as anything else. Asking where a product came from or how it was made leads to a lot of interesting changes in the way we shop, eat, drive, live. Just think of the recent frenzy over lead in toys, and the questions that raised. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 12 2008
Beets have to be one of the best living proofs of the old adage that you can't judge a book by its cover. Ugly on the outside, gorgeous on the inside, and chock full of truly amazing health benefits. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Home & Garden Aug 12 2008
For decades, organic gardeners have been relying on a somewhat cumbersome spray of baking soda combined with a sticking agent?like oil or soap?to fight powdery mildew without poison. But Bettiol found that the super-easy concoction of nine parts water to one part milk slashed the severity of powdery mildew infection by 90 percent. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 8 2008
This fall, students at a growing number of college campuses across the country will be sweating a little greener and easier in collegiate clothes with a conscience. As a result of the efforts of a group called United Students Against Sweatshops, students at over 100 universities across the continent are trying to force their schools to take responsibility for the conditions under which their logo-bearing clothing is produced. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Work & Connect Aug 8 2008
Laura MacLean appeared on Emeril?s show to get some ideas about staying on track after managing to lose 130 pounds. These heroes provide great fuel for kick starting our own goals. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 8 2008
Putting on a party is a lot of fun and a lot of work. It can be a flurry getting everything ready, making everything look beautiful...including you. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 7 2008
Can you make authentic flour tortillas without lard? Depends on who you ask, and which region of Mexico you?re thinking about. And then again, Texan tortillas are a whole other story. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 7 2008
What is hair conditioner? It's whatever you put in your hair to make it smoother, shinier, or just easier to comb through when you get out of the shower. Unfortunately, most commercial hair conditioners are full of stuff that's pretty bad for the planet. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 6 2008
If you want to feast on the flavors of Puerto Rico first hand, you'll be glad to know that Puerto Rico is a premiere destination for eco-travel. The International Ecotourism Society, the world's oldest and largest eco-tourism organization, defines eco-tourism + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 5 2008
Emeril knows better than anyone the power of food. Food nourishes. Food heals. Food tempts. And food evokes memories and fantasies of everything from the warm days of childhood to the exotic trip we hope to take next winter. Food, being the essence of life itself, symbolizes everything that we are, and captures the full range of our emotions, from dread to delight. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 5 2008
Skin problems like acne breakouts are trivial in the face of global warming, but this matters little when they happen to you, especially if they happen repeatedly.Rose petals or mint leaves are also a sensory delight, as are essential oils of clary sage, tea tree, or neroli (but if you are asthmatic or have breathing... + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Aug 5 2008
Emeril Green's homemade ginger ale, made with fresh ginger, is a brilliant way to sneak one of nature's most potent medicinal plants into your picky teenage eaters. Ginger is often used, and is sometimes recommended by health care professionals, to treat the following ailments (from the University of Maryland) + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Jul 30 2008
You know you're supposed to eat more fish (and less red meat). You've heard that including fish in your diet offers amazing health benefits from the essential fatty acids they contain in their lean meats. Plus, you love Emeril's Portuguese fish stew. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Jul 30 2008
One of Puerto Rico's greatest contributions to the Caribbean diet are plátanos, or plantains. These savory members of the banana family are starchier and lower in sugar than their sweeter cousins. More similar to a potato than to a sweet fruit, plantains aren't meant for enjoying raw. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Work & Connect Jul 29 2008
You can save big bucks by bringing your own lunch, but the days of the brown bag are over. Disposable bag waste is such an easy problem to solve! It's absolutely no more work (and less expense) to carry something re-usable. The only hurdle is habit. + READ MORE
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By Jeannine Ouellette IN Food & Health Jul 28 2008
Whether you're dealing with wheat allergies or trying to boost the protein and cut the fat and carbs in your diet, Quinoa is a great grain to enjoy. Actually, this ancient South American favorite isn't, technically speaking, a grain, but a fruit. Either way, it offers a mellow nutty flavor and an easy 15-minute cooking time, and is widely available, often organic, and affordably priced. + READ MORE
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